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The Pro-Life Crowd is Fueling COVID Deaths with Kerosene
How many deaths were avoidable and where partisanship played a role in the most turbulent pandemic in a lifetime
Earlier this month, the United States surpassed a new grim milestone: one million COVID-19 deaths. Over the past 16 months, half of coronavirus deaths in this country were preventable thanks to the hardworking scientists who made the vaccine possible. Social distancing and mask wearing aside, if America as a whole took the vaccine seriously, hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been prevented.
Recent analysis conducted by researchers at Brown University and Microsoft AI for Health concluded roughly 319,000 deaths were preventable from January 2021 to April 2022. In order to predict the number of preventable deaths, researchers constructed a model that assumed vaccination levels never slowed down during the Summer of 2021. Ever since then, the sluggish vaccination rates have contributed needlessly to massive loss of life.
Over the past six months, the percent of fully vaccinated Americans hasn’t budged more than 6%, meaning there has only been a meager 1% increase in the vaccination rate each month for the past half a year. It’s no wonder the pandemic seemed never-ending, and why a new variant arising seems within the realm of possibilities.
